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talents. It is just so with the horse : so long as he 

 is kept and used by the same class, so long he is 

 worth the three hundred, and if he changed hands 

 among this class would bring the same price. Though 

 the dealer had a particular customer in his mind's 

 eye when he bought this horse, and sold him to this 

 identical customer, he perhaps knew of several others 

 who would have purchased him at a similar price. 

 In this case, then, he in reality sold the animal for no 

 more than his value to the purchaser, though paying 

 a high profit to the dealer. 



This brings upon the carpet another page in the ca- 

 talogue of crimes placed to the account of the dealer ; 

 which is, the difference between buying of and selling 

 to him. On this subject much more might be said 

 than I intend troubling the Reader with. I must, 

 however, remark, as a primary clause in my defence of 

 him in this particular, that it is not a part of his trade 

 to repurchase horses, or to buy them at all after 

 they have been in and about London. We will sup- 

 pose, by way of one particular case, that the pur- 

 chaser of the horse I have been lately alluding to, 

 without having any fault to find with the animal, 

 who, on the contrary, we will suppose, has turned 

 out to be all he anticipated or wished, still for 

 some reason wishes to dispose of him. The first 

 thing he probably does is to go to the dealer from 

 whom he purchased him, and, perhaps naturally 

 enough, expects he will be disposed to buy him. 

 Now I must first apprise my Reader, that a dealer 

 would at any moment just as soon see that Gentleman 

 who is represented as wearing those pleasing appen- 

 dages of horns and hoofs enter his yard as a horse 

 he has sold, when he returns there for the purpose 



